D.C. Libraries’ Woes Still Lack a Happy Ending

“I could work 80 hours a week for 100 years and still have things left to be done,” says Ginnie Cooper, the energetic and optimistic new chief of the District’s sadly neglected public library system, of the sorry state of a library system that suffers from startlingly low book circulation, dilapidated buildings, a thin collection, insufficient support from the District government and a lack of popular consensus over how to fix the system.

Depending on whether you share Cooper’s optimism or prefer to focus on the system’s deep troubles, you could frame the library story in one of two ways.

June 6, 2007 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. nbruce says:
    June 7, 2007 at 12:24 am

    Sad
    “I want this to be the library the District deserves,” she said. Perhaps it is, if the people let it get in this condition.

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